I made a Twitter “moment” of some of the pictures from yesterday’s (July 15th) walk… https://twitter.com/NotRock/status/1018786420390072321 Thanks to everyone who joined me. News of future events coming soon. Sign up for the mailing list here.

While looking for pictures of Watson Fothergill’s buildings in bygone days, I stumbled upon some old postcards of Nottingham at the turn of the 19th century, this led me to a do a search on eBay and I found this item: a small coffee cup that porports to be from the Black Boy Hotel! The Nottingham coat of arms is on the cup and the saucer.

Of course, I had to make an offer… and low and behold it arrived in the post a couple of days later!

That’s a one cup cafetiere for scale… it’s a little larger than an espresso cup that you’d get today – perhaps people liked a short strong coffee back in the days of the Gentleman’s Lounge Bar?

Learn more about The Black Boy Hotel and Watson Fothergill’s work on the building on The Watson Fothergill Walk

A second Watson Fothergill Walk is planned for Sunday July 15th at 10am. Go to Eventbrite to book tickets. Please book in advance as once again places are limited. Hope to see you there!

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Last year the Nottingham Industrial Museum held a small exhibition about The Black Boy Hotel, a building that Fothergill worked on, on and off,  between 1886 and 1900.

The highlight of the exhibition was a scale model and I took some photographs:

Learn more about Fothergill’s work on the Black Boy Hotel and its ultimate fate on the Watson Fothergill Walk.

I’m playing round with a few other links for the walk so here’s a link to a new Instagram account: WatsonFothergillWalk Do follow and share if that’s your thing.

Also if you’ve missed out on the first walk, but are interested in joining possible future events, please sign up to the email list and I’ll let you know about future dates.

Thank you for all the support, the June 24th walk is now SOLD OUT!

Missed out? Need an alternate date? Get in touch! Email me

Like The Facebook page or tweet me to express interest. I will look at doing a July and /or August date. #WatsonFothergill #Nottingham

I’ve been looking for photos of old Nottingham and pictures of Watson Fothergill’s buildings that we will see on the walk, and some of those that are further afield.

Here’s a link to the Pinterest board where I’ve been collecting them.

Join me for the walk on June 24th  – now booking.

1. Fothergill Watson was born in 1841 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
2. His work dates from 1863 to around 1912 and in that time he mainly worked in and around Nottingham.
3. In 1892 he switched his name around by deed poll, in order to carry on his mother’s family name.
4. He received a large inheritance from his father in law, Samuel Hage,one of the founding partners in Mansfield Brewery, and being comfortably off never saw the need to venture much beyond the county boundaries.
5. Fothergill was well connected locally with a half-brother on the Mansfield Improvements Commission and the influential Brunts’ Charity, which lead to several building projects. The charity is still a going concern, with Almshouses in the Mansfield area.

I’ve set a date for the first Watson Fothergill Walk: 24th June 2018, 11am.

Here’s the Eventbrite ticket page – limited numbers available.

TICKETS

You may also book your tickets directly through Facebook if that’s your thing:

Watson Fothergill Walk on Facebook.

Please join me to test the format!